The world has not lost its love of the classic movie, the likes of Gone
With the Wind and The Godfather, but the same can’t be said of
the grittier charms of Taggart and Rebus or the inglorious
excess of Footballers’ Wives, as Metrodome has discovered to
its cost.

The company’s shares crashed by nearly 40 per cent at one stage yesterday
after it warned that its division selling television content had suffered a
marked slowdown in sales to Europe.

Metrodome specialises in selling the rights to arthouse and classic films to
broadcasters on behalf of the big film film